Hackrf Portapack H2
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Airspy: Fairly cheap and quite a polished experience in SDRSharp on Windows, but nowhere close to HackRF functionally. A good option for beginners where ease of use is very important, but loses value quickly once a person developers a solid foundation in SDR
RTL-SDR: Specifically NooElecs varietns of rtl-sdr are probably the best of the cheap, RX only SDRs. Compatible with virtually everything known to humankind. NooElecs adds really stable bias-t and filtering, and their Smartee sticks can tune HF without needing an upconverter
USRP: A clone can be had for about a hundred bucks from ebay. Great for 4g and slower cellular. Extremely well supported in terms of compatibility, especially on linux - though that support is being slowly deprecated (i think YateBTS already dropped native support though it can still be added easily if building from source)
CaribouLite/Radioberry/DRAWS/etc PI hats: These are really fun to play with and are a GREAT way to get a remote network sink set up. I have a few of these sitting in the garage on various PI devices that just pipe 2-10mhz of spectrum to any machine on my lan
Ive looked at the tinySA, the Ultra seam really good, but it does not seam like it will does decoding, i will probably get one down the road when i need a full blown spectrum analyzer.
How is the hackRF as a spectrum analyser?
Im not doing cellular and no plan on it (yet ) its mostly for rf remote and com decoding (and reverse engineering) and transmitting. current project is 100M to 1K target.
I think ill go for portapack as a starter as some basic stand alone function would be nice. and i can tether it to a pc and pipe the results in mathlab if needed.
PORTAPACK with the latest version Mayhem firmware (the latest version of mayhem release firmware, and the firmware update progress is consistent with the official) flashed + HACKRF ONE 1MHz to 6GHz SDR Software Defined Radio + 0.1ppm TXCO
Note: Mayhem firmware needed for portapack has been flashed into the hackrf demo board. And each one has been tested before shipping. You can use it directly by just one click the knob button to boot the device.
Our SDR technical engineers come from OpenSourceSDR Lab have writen the HackRF One and Portapack relevant user manual. If you need it, you can contact our customer service staffs and let them send you the download link.
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Arrived today after customs procedure. The shipping tracking was extremely well organized. I received all the info where the package was at the time. The item itself was realy safely packed. You could drop it from the plane and will arrive unharmed. Realy good and carefull shipping. And is working. Still need to learn about all the functionalities but working out of the box. The shipping was a lot faster than advertised.
This seller is by far the best seller I have dealt with on all the AliExpress they even re-shipped my order DHL, when got caught up in shipping I highly recommend this item and this seller will work to no end to make you satisfied. Thank you so much.!!
After buying this product from two sellers I can confirm that This seller is the best and most reliable For this device. you can tell they care about their reputation. came 5 days early. packaged properly. very pleased.
Fast and amazing customer service. Item arrived with broken display (probably from shipping) and OpenSourceSDRLab quickly sent a replacement with no hassle to get me up and running fast. 100% would do business with this seller again!
The item is as advertised, with a steel case, all antennas seem to work well. The only thing i noted is that when pressing the reset button, the portapack freezes and the USB must be unplugged and plugged in again in order to make it works
The device arrived in working condition and in the declared configuration. Firmware installed 1.7.4 mayhem.
But the complete USB LG Cable does not want to work with laptop, only works with PC. I will look for an alternative.
Perhaps for my tasks, a regular HackRF would be enough, and not a Portapak. This seller has them too. It would be cheaper, and for the difference in money, it is better to look for an antenna with amplifiers.
Product description was accurate. Shipped in cardboard box wrapped in lots of packing tape which made it practically waterproof! Product was very well protected with bubble wrap and foam inserts. Control wheel covered with a hard cap in transit to present damage. Fast shipment to the UK arriving a week ahead of expected delivery date. Very happy with the product and service,
Very satisfied well packaged and no tangle with things you have to install
So if you want to buy a hack RF only on this website 100 percent good
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Passed the customs without problems, delivery on time, packed well. Launched immediately out of the box, installed version 1.7.4. I recommend the seller, because Created a community in a cart with all the necessary information.
The Portapack (in my case, the H1) ist a great addition to the hackrf one. After I had damaged two hackrfs, my current setup now uses the version with a modified RF-frontend by Clifford Heath. This now works safely alongside my ham radio gear.
PortaPack H1 turns HackRF One into a portable SDR platform. With an LCD,navigation control, and audio input and output, the device can be used as ahandheld spectrum analyzer and can implement a wide variety of useful radiofunctions. A microSD slot on the PortaPack can be used for waveform orfirmware storage, and a coin cell keeps the real-time clock and a small amountof configuration RAM going while the device is turned off.
Of course, the hardware designs andfirmware for PortaPack H1 are published under an open source license.Jared has done an amazing job of implementing SDR functions for PortaPack thatrun entirely on HackRF One's ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller.
To use PortaPack H1, you'll need a HackRF One, and you'll probably want aUSB battery pack to make it a fully portable solution. Another popular add-onis the beautiful milledAluminum enclosure for PortaPack. Jared provides a ShareBrained Technology guitar pickwith every PortaPack H1. It is the perfect tool for opening your HackRF One'sinjection molded plastic enclosure prior to PortaPack installation.
There was a wonderful moment at the Demo Lab when Jared tuned his PortaPackto a frequency being used by Ang Cui at a nearbytable. Jared's PortaPack was plugged in to a small speaker, so we could alllisten to the AM radio transmission originating from a printer at Ang'stable. The printer was physically unmodified but was running malicioussoftware that transmitted radio signals with a funtenna! Formore information about Ang's implementation, visit funtenna.org.
Over the next several days, thousands of hackers will gather at the Chaos CommunicationCamp in Germany. An electronic badge for the event is being prepared, andit is based on my design for HackRF One!
At DEF CON over the weekend, I wasfortunate to be able to meet up with Ray, one of the members of the Munich CCC group responsible for the rad1o badge. Ray was wearing oneof the prototype units, so I was able to take a close look.
The design is a variation of HackRF One. It includesa small LCD and an audio interface, so it is a bit like having a HackRF Oneplus a PortaPackH1 on a single board. A slim, rechargeable LiPo battery is mounted on theback. The visual design of the PCB looks like a traditional AM/FM radioreceiver complete with an antenna (which is not the actual RF antenna) and adial (which is not really a dial).
There are some design modifications, especially in the RF section, thatseemed strange to me at first. The reason for many of these changes is thatthe rad1o team was able to get certain chip vendors to agree to sponsor thebadge by donating parts. By redesigning around donated components they wereable to reduce the cost to a small fraction of the cost of manufacturing HackRFOne, making it possible to build the rad1o badge for several thousandcampers.
The firmware for rad1o is derived from HackRF One firmware but is in a separate repository. Because of the LCDand other differences between the two hardware designs, they are notfirmware-compatible. When using rad1o as a USB peripheral, it is fullysupported by existing software that supports HackRF One. Future rad1o firmwarewill use a USB product ID of 0xCC15 assigned from the Openmoko pool, but theshipping firmware will borrow HackRF One's product ID. This will ensure thatany existing software for HackRF One will work with rad1o during camp. The newproduct ID (0xCC15) is already supported in libhackrf release 2015.07.2, so itshould be easy for people to update to it in the near future.
If you are new to Software Defined Radio and are looking forward to usingthe badge as a way to get started with SDR, I recommend starting with my video series. You might want to download the videos beforeleaving for camp. Also take a look at GettingStarted with HackRF and GNU Radio and the recommended software forrad1o. If you plan to do firmware or hardware hacking, be sure to clonethe rad1o repositories. For examples ofDigital Signal Processing (DSP) on the LPC43xx, I suggest studying JaredBoone's firmware forPortaPack H1. Also check out the videoof Jared's Software-Defined Radio SignalProcessing with a $5 Microcontroller at BSidesLV 2015.As an open source hardware developer, it is extremely satisfying to seefolks start with my design and do something amazing like the rad1o badge. I'mexcited to be attending camp for my first time ever, and I can't wait to seethe projects people will come up with!
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